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Ryuichi Sakamoto (sample piece: solari)

Roedelius (sample piece: A Short Walk in the Hills)

Vangelis (sample piece: Memories of Green)

Also helpful: no forced online hangouts and discussion of current events as if it’s necessary to do at work.

Been doing it as primary income source for about a year and I enjoy it. As long as the work keeps flowing in I’ll stick with this path. I lucked out in that one of the contacts I made runs their own consulting agency so they bring me in on jobs I’m good at when they need help.

So networking, your work ethic, and integrity demonstrated to others seems important..

It’s weird when people are having conversations about dealing with a home purchase or finding a daycare then when asked “what have you been up to?” Saying “dealing with a family member who is/may be dying” and then they say “oh wow, sorry to hear that let us know if we can be of support” and knowing they don’t really mean it and are just kind of trying to move on to an easier conversation.

It’s not an easy thing to go through.

So why would they hire workers in their own country? People in this thread already have said it. Time zones, cultural business norms and understanding, native communication ability, tax and legal issues regarding employment (already annoying enough to hire employees in other states in the US for example), ability to connect with clients in the same locale, etc.

Now I’ll give you that this MIGHT shift things to a degree. I don’t think it’ll be the race to the bottom you and others are saying.

On the one hand you have folks that want to ban rights of LGBTQ folks, end ability to get an abortion safely, for example.

On the other there’s those that want to remove powers of the police, allow homeless drug addicts to take over neighborhoods, and more authoritarian style lockdown policies in public health.

There’s people that really don’t like some of that and will go where their lives feel less restricted.

In any case, as an employee I may not care that much about paying back taxes later or whatever, but I think you're right there could be unintended consequences with this.

That said, in general, I think it can be frightening and traumatic to some people to see angry people destroying things. I know it would be for a kid seeing an angry drunk parent destroy their tablet they play games on, even if it's just a machine. This isn't the same as that, but just trying to say, we should try to understand that certain violent (or whatever you'd like to call destructive) actions will frighten some people.